The Opelousas courier., 1887-04-16
Items Of Interest.

A man who is not much himself ought to
brag about his ancestors.
The best modern siege guns cost $97 900 and
it costs $500 to shoot them once
All hail, gentle spring. at the North, is
mostly all hail, with very little gentle spring,
so far
Opelousas, committed suicide last week by
drowning himself in Bayou st. john. near
New Orleans.
Riding on horseback has come to be the
fashion in New York, and no society girls ed
,eation is considered complete unless she can
ride we'll
Can February March 9-Brooklyn Eagle;
No, but April May.--Chicago News. How'd
June know ColdNater Herald. don't know,
but do know that July.-Vicksbur Herald
Baltimore Herald: 1t seems that the aver
age per head per year in this country for
whisky is $18, and for bread $S We don't see
what some people want with SO much bread.
A little girl who was injured on the New
York Central and sued for damages seventeen
years ago, has just received $500 She ask.
ed for $1,000 at the start, and four trials and
seven appeals to highest courts has cost the
company o,000.
Lafayette Advertiser: Homestead Associa-
tlOuS III OuE bU"AO SOOhI W W OA
the boom The Lake Charles Association
loaned 8 1900 last week at 80 per cent premi'
I.um, aud the New Iberia Association has clos
ed its first series and started to work.
Lake Charles Commercial The creditors of
one of our merchants, that didn't advertise,
got hold of his stock Of goods and are going to
grabit- all in. Let our business men use print
ers' ink and this will not happen. Advertise
your business aud have your printing done at
home.
The capitol of Texas will cost tho State
| three million acres of land, and is to be com.
pleted in 1885, It win be 3ll feet high; 626
feet long, and 2s7 feet wide. 1t will be the
taIlest and grandest capitol in the United
States The capitol syndicate employs two
thousand men.
At Fort SuIith, Ark, stock has been sub
| scribed for $4,000 bridge, a $780, 900 cotton
| mill, a $4,000 fruit canning factory, S5O,0oo
| carriage factory, $4,000 ice factory and q
| S65, 900 opera house. Real estate increases IN
value daily, and the trains are constantly fill
| ed with speculators from different points.
| Lake Charles Commercial: Several Of our
| townspeople went to New Orleans Tuesday
night to witness the unveilins of the John.
ston statue last Wednesday. Many more
would have gone had it been generally known
that special rates were offered. A little ad-
vertising would have paid we'll on that occa'
/ sion.
/ N. o. Chronicle In development Of re-
sources and aroused energies of the people,
/ the Worlds Exposition has left behind 1t evi.
dences of iucalculable value. Let Burke OF
Louisiana, Richardson of Mississippi, and
| their associates, be given the full meed of de-
/ served praise. Above all, the South should
| be grateful to Congress and the administra'
/ tion of President Arthur for the wise bounty
| that benefited the country a hufdred fold.
/ Thibodaux Sentinel: The unveiling of the
| equestrian statue of Gen. Albert Sydney John
| ston in New Orleans on April 9, the 25th ami.
versary of his glorious death at the battle OF
Shiloh, was one of the most impressive cere.
monies that ever took place IN that: city, and
the grand statue of the grand warrior will re-
main for centuries as lit memorial OF the ad.
| miration and veneration entertained by the
Southern people for the virtues, honor and
heroism of one of the purest and noblest men
who ever fell in battle, with victory perchipe
\ npon his banners.
i Capitolian-Advocate: 1t is generally belIev
ed that the monkey can be trained to work as
we'll as TO play, and there is hope of domesti
eating these animals and making them use
full workers, as well as associates for peripa
tetic organ grinders, As au evidence of this
hope, we see it stated III a telegram from
Richmond KY, that Mr.. j. b. Parkes, sub
stantial farmer, living near Kingston, hat
successfully trained u force of seven large
monkeys To WOfk III MS HtHp uSiu anu "
break and prepare the hemp for market
tThey do the work more quickly and better
he says, than the negroes he formerly employ
ed, and at about one-tonrth the cost. 1t re
quired about four months of patient work tc
train the animals, but they now do thei
work with rare intelligence. The monkey
were sent to Mr.. Parkes by brother, who if
in business in Cape Town, South Africa, ant
who had seen the animals put to similar use
there. Mr.. Parkes has sent for ten more. sil
of them TO be used by John G. Taylor, neigh
boring farmer.
/. Pointe coupee Banner: Intensive farming
is coming mere iu vogue in this peighborhoot
j this season than ever before. Many of th
planters and farmers are not resting satisfied
to cultivate only the rich back fields whicl
the building of MorRanza has left free from
, water this season for the first time in thirteel
years, but they are using large quantities o
cotton seed or cotton seed meal rs fertilizer
on the front lands which were becoming e1
hausted Greater attention is given to drain
age, and the latest improvements ID plows
eultiyators aud planters are being brough
|, into use All this indicates an awakening o
!, the part of our agriculturlsts, and deter
mination of theirs to carve out their own des
j. TIMES, aud in doing SO they will add to th
| general welfare and prosperity OF the State
Let the crop Ut 1887 be cultivated and hal
vested with the same energy and good juds
ment as it has been commenced, and we ca
y certainly expect q new impetus to be given t
, all commercial aud industrial enterprises
| Verify we believe that the dawDiDg OF q ne'
aud prosperous era is upon us,
/